Red Hat Software Collections 2.3 now beta

Today, Red Hat announced the beta availability of Red Hat Software Collections 2.3, Red Hat’s newest installment of open source web development tools, dynamic languages, and databases. Delivered on a separate lifecycle from Red Hat Enterprise Linux with a more frequent release cadence, Red Hat Software Collections bridges developer agility and production stability by helping to accelerate the creation of modern applications that can then be more confidently deployed into production.

New additions to Red Hat Software Collections 2.3 Beta include:

Open source databases

New MySQL 5.7

New Redis 3.2

Updates to MongoDB 3.2

Open source languages

New Perl 5.24

New PHP 7.0

Updates to PHP 5.6

Updates to Python 3.5

Updates to Ruby 2.3

New Git 2.9

New Thermostat 1.6, a JVM monitoring tool.

Repackaged Eclipse Neon (4.6.1), once part of the Red Hat Developer Toolset collection is now its own separate collection.